Mom's Gone Wild

Friday night was my first official "Mom's Night Out -- MNO" with the playgroup. It was nice to go somewhere with the girls and not have to worry about running after Ms. Hailey midway through someone's conversation!
First we hit Hanaoki, the Japanese Steak House. Yummy! Just imagine for yourself 12 mom's, no rug rats in high chairs demanding attention, lots of food menus and only one drink list -- here is where we encountered our first problem ;) Being mom's we used our problem solving skills and our nice "share" attitudes and were able to pass it around to one another! We had a good time with the open fire grill (some more so than others . . .), a big delicious meal and tons of great conversations. How does one get from the topic of beer vs liquor to Oprah vs Ellen??

Next it was off to Chili's for dessert . . . but after finding there to be not enough room for the 10 of us that remained we walked over to Harbor Cafe. Not the nicest of places, but there was beer, liquor and a large enough table to seat us all, so we weren't going to complain!! After more good conversation, far to many admissions to watching 90210, The Real Desperate Housewives, One Tree Hill and Bromance (seriously, the last one, you know who you are!!) and a few more drinks we headed back to Chili's for another try at dessert.

This time there was success!! The 8 that still stood strong snagged two booths and the conversations continued. It's amazing the things that you can find to talk about when the only conversations you have at home all day are about, well, in my case nothing really!! Lets face it Hailey's only "words" are dadadadadadada, the occasional mmmmmammma and some lalala's!!
So after saying we were going to share some desserts, each proceeding to order our own and pigging out we slowly dragged ourselves home somewhere around 1130. Not bad for a bunch of mama's who will all admit to regularly being in bed NLT 10pm :)

So maybe it wasn't REALLY Mom's Gone Wild, but it was fun enough for us!! And thanks to all my great conversations I have a few more things to add to my agenda:
1. I need to learn more about the world of cloth diapers, apparently they've come a LONG WAY ... and HELLO they come in cow print!!! That alone deserves looking into.
2. I must follow Perez Hilton a little more closely . . .
3. Supposedly there are applications on Facebook that have something to do with challenging one another and finding words -- I have no idea, but it's supposed to be addictive!
4. And the shocker . . . Not all my pregnancies will be the same -- WHAT?! So maybe #2 won't be a cake walk?! Then maybe there won't be a #2 ;)

Ahh, the mom's, talk about a wealth of untapped knowledge!!

Upon returning home I found Hailey passed out with some of her bestest friends -- looks like they may have had quite the 9 month birthday bash!!